ANDREW MAXWELL MORRIS
''WELL TREAD ROADS''
MAY 05 2014
3:08
1 On A Rainbow 02:55
2 In A Heartache 03:59
3 This Black Dog 02:38
4 Friday Night 02:47
5 Sea Shanty 02:48
6 Home City 04:03
7 Writing On The Windows 01:53
8 Well Tread Roads 04:36
9 Low Light 03:53
10 Let It Go 03:30
All Songs By Morris
ABOUT/WEBSITE
A singer/songwriter/composer, and a well travelled soul.
Andrew released his debut album Well Tread Roads on Monday 5th May 2014. It is a project that explores the highs and lows of creating music with the demands of a full time job, giving up evenings and weekends and being dedicated to the task. The album was written and arranged in Andrew’s bedroom. It was taken on, mixed and post produced by Jordan Critz, in Dallas, USA.
Andrew was born in Melbourne in Australia. His love for music began age 5, placed at a piano and brought into the world of traditional folk music. He wrote his first song at 12, taught himself the drums and guitar when he was 13. Songwriting always came easy. He developed a love of 197O’s Laurel Canyon artists – James Taylor, Jackson Browne, the eagles and later a fascination with Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
Well Tread Roads explores depression [This Black Dog] a longing for family [Home City] and a desire to carve out his own path through the title song Well Tread Roads. It is a rollercoaster of driving pop/folk and acoustic songs, each with its own identity.
As well as his album and two EP’s, Andrew has had success with music placements in TV adverts for two major brands, Thatcher’s Cider and Vodafone. He has written for production music companies and films around the world including EMI and Imagem.
ABOUT THE ALBUM
By Phil Edwards, www.americana-uk.com
Formally known as Andrew Morris, “Maxwell” has been added to differentiate himself from an Australian songwriter with the same (former) moniker. “Well Tread Roads” is Morris’ debut album and follows on from his successful appearances at Glastonbury and Guilfest plus his 2009 EP “Longbeach” when he was known as Andrew Morris. This album is chock full of hummable catchy tunes covering all sorts of subjects including love (but of course), heartache, loneliness, depression and familial separation, the subjects of which display raw emotion and his own vulnerabilities. Morris is not afraid to display his heart on his sleeve. The tunes here are a mixture of solo and band performances and opener ‘On A Rainbow’ demonstrates the influences from his favourite Laurel Canyon artists such as James Taylor and Jackson Browne with its simple melodic vibe and haunting melody which demonstrates just how fine a guitar player he is. ‘This Black Dog’ covers depression in a remarkably upbeat way, but maybe that’s the way to try and deal with and manage this terrible affliction that affects two in three adults in the UK at some stage of their life.
Sir Winston Churchill used to refer to his bouts of darkness as the “black dog”. Starting as an incantation, Friday Night’ tells the tale of the boredom and routine of cities, and ‘Sea Shanty’ outlines the narrator’s journey of homecoming after his many travels around the world, as experienced by Morris who is well travelled having lived in Oman, Fiji and Saudi Arabia amongst others. Continuing the theme of journeying, I expected ‘Home City’ to speak for itself, but it indicates the loneliness of being far away from friends, family and the familiarities of the town he grew up in and along with ‘Sea Shanty’ is one of the strongest songs on the album. Toe tapper ‘Writing On The Windows’ rattles along at a fair lick, but the title track slows things down to seemingly return to the travelling motif, but is actually about having a personal choice and deciding not to do what’s expected of you by others, which in Morris’s case is becoming a fulltime musician and someday leaving behind his legal career.
This album is quite simply stunning with thoughtful intelligent lyrics, caressing melodies and, despite some of the subject matter, not an ounce of maudlin to be seen. I urge you to check it out and can find it on Morris’s website. And then do yourself a favour, buy it; emerging artists need your financial help as well as your support and with songs of this quality, I want to hear his next selection.
WEBSITE
TO THE TOP
''WELL TREAD ROADS''
MAY 05 2014
3:08
1 On A Rainbow 02:55
2 In A Heartache 03:59
3 This Black Dog 02:38
4 Friday Night 02:47
5 Sea Shanty 02:48
6 Home City 04:03
7 Writing On The Windows 01:53
8 Well Tread Roads 04:36
9 Low Light 03:53
10 Let It Go 03:30
All Songs By Morris
ABOUT/WEBSITE
A singer/songwriter/composer, and a well travelled soul.
Andrew released his debut album Well Tread Roads on Monday 5th May 2014. It is a project that explores the highs and lows of creating music with the demands of a full time job, giving up evenings and weekends and being dedicated to the task. The album was written and arranged in Andrew’s bedroom. It was taken on, mixed and post produced by Jordan Critz, in Dallas, USA.
Andrew was born in Melbourne in Australia. His love for music began age 5, placed at a piano and brought into the world of traditional folk music. He wrote his first song at 12, taught himself the drums and guitar when he was 13. Songwriting always came easy. He developed a love of 197O’s Laurel Canyon artists – James Taylor, Jackson Browne, the eagles and later a fascination with Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
Well Tread Roads explores depression [This Black Dog] a longing for family [Home City] and a desire to carve out his own path through the title song Well Tread Roads. It is a rollercoaster of driving pop/folk and acoustic songs, each with its own identity.
As well as his album and two EP’s, Andrew has had success with music placements in TV adverts for two major brands, Thatcher’s Cider and Vodafone. He has written for production music companies and films around the world including EMI and Imagem.
ABOUT THE ALBUM
By Phil Edwards, www.americana-uk.com
Formally known as Andrew Morris, “Maxwell” has been added to differentiate himself from an Australian songwriter with the same (former) moniker. “Well Tread Roads” is Morris’ debut album and follows on from his successful appearances at Glastonbury and Guilfest plus his 2009 EP “Longbeach” when he was known as Andrew Morris. This album is chock full of hummable catchy tunes covering all sorts of subjects including love (but of course), heartache, loneliness, depression and familial separation, the subjects of which display raw emotion and his own vulnerabilities. Morris is not afraid to display his heart on his sleeve. The tunes here are a mixture of solo and band performances and opener ‘On A Rainbow’ demonstrates the influences from his favourite Laurel Canyon artists such as James Taylor and Jackson Browne with its simple melodic vibe and haunting melody which demonstrates just how fine a guitar player he is. ‘This Black Dog’ covers depression in a remarkably upbeat way, but maybe that’s the way to try and deal with and manage this terrible affliction that affects two in three adults in the UK at some stage of their life.
Sir Winston Churchill used to refer to his bouts of darkness as the “black dog”. Starting as an incantation, Friday Night’ tells the tale of the boredom and routine of cities, and ‘Sea Shanty’ outlines the narrator’s journey of homecoming after his many travels around the world, as experienced by Morris who is well travelled having lived in Oman, Fiji and Saudi Arabia amongst others. Continuing the theme of journeying, I expected ‘Home City’ to speak for itself, but it indicates the loneliness of being far away from friends, family and the familiarities of the town he grew up in and along with ‘Sea Shanty’ is one of the strongest songs on the album. Toe tapper ‘Writing On The Windows’ rattles along at a fair lick, but the title track slows things down to seemingly return to the travelling motif, but is actually about having a personal choice and deciding not to do what’s expected of you by others, which in Morris’s case is becoming a fulltime musician and someday leaving behind his legal career.
This album is quite simply stunning with thoughtful intelligent lyrics, caressing melodies and, despite some of the subject matter, not an ounce of maudlin to be seen. I urge you to check it out and can find it on Morris’s website. And then do yourself a favour, buy it; emerging artists need your financial help as well as your support and with songs of this quality, I want to hear his next selection.
WEBSITE
TO THE TOP
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